A Sharing Session with Year 5-6 Students

This is a sharing session based on Our Granny by Margaret Wild.

I undertook this workshop with a group of Year 5-6 students. The aim of the session was for each student to:

have an opportunity to share their text with the teacher and other students
get an opportunity to receive a response from others (including the teacher) about their text
be encouraged to feel good about themselves as developing writers.

You will note that the responses mainly focus on the content of the texts.

Prior to the session, I had introduced and read the book Our Granny by Margaret Wild to the class and launched a subsequent writing lesson. Refer to that video for details of the lesson.

This culminated in each student selecting a person who is very special to them and writing about that person/what makes the person special. This group of students now share their writing with me and some of their classmates and receive a response from the students and I in a reasonably relaxed way.

Students in the session do not represent extremes of high or low ability – they were selected principally because of their anticipated confidence in a filming situation. All students had been given permission by their parents/caregivers to participate in the filming. Note that some students in the group do not speak English as their mother tongue.